Avalanche Major News

• Avalanche C-chain reaches the highest daily transactions ever on 22 December—962,666 txs.

• “Insane” Avalanche growth:

  • 80% of Ethereum’s activity

  • 134,000 daily active addresses

  • 13,000 unique developers

• The number of unique Avalanche C-chain developers doubles in December

• Cross-chain tokens $SOL, $LUNA and $MATIC appeared in the top-10 Avalanche contracts on Trader Joe

Stats

• Avalanche rises to #3 network with highest YTD TVL

• Avalanche network maintains $17B TVL

• Total Avalanche address at 1,463,376

• Total cumulative transactions at over 451,400,000

• Over 83,600 C-chain contracts deployed

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Ecosystem

• Daniele Sestagalli announced a multi-chain plan to integrate Wonderland Finance ($TIME) closely with Popsicle Finance ($ICE), Abracadabra Money ($SPELL) and Sushi Swap ($SUSHI)

• Vending Machines NFT, a unique upcoming NFT project with gamelike utility is preparing for launch with whitelisting contests.

• AVenturesDAO invested in and partnered with Heroes Chained a fantasy action RPG game

• MagnetDAO an Avalanche start-up accelerator & investment fund initiated the public sale of $MAG

• Pollen DeFi a community-generated index platform announced doubled farming rewards

• Snowbank allowed holders to exchange $SB at RFV ~USD $400 in #MIM or hold for use in Snowbank V2’s liquidity governance project.

• Lava a liquid staking validator delegation protocol opened its Discord to the public.

Upcoming

• Islander an affiliate marketing & learn-to-earn platform announce upcoming IDO with Avalaunch

• Minted History a crypto history NFT publisher launches its NFT staking lottery on 1 January 2022.

• Snowball and Moralis team-up to teach UI and UX design

• BooFinance hint about upcoming launch of farming dapp

• Penguin Finance announces 2 IDOs next month

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CEX

• Cypto.com supports USDC deposits and withdraws using Avalanche C-chain

• Binance.us now supports purchasing AVAX using a debit card, bank account, or wire transfer

DEX

• Trader Joe raised 72 AVAX for charity

• Pangolin launches $MIM-$AVAX & $MIM-$USDC farming pool

• Pangolin launches smarter farming contracts and sustainable revenue sharing

Lending

• Qi Dai finalizes vote for an OTC deal with Harry Yeh

• OrcaDAO opens 3 stablecoin vaults for Yield Yak interest bearing tokens

• Blizz Finance launched MIM lending and borrowing

Yield Optimizers

• Yield Yak updated UI for a better UX

• Snowball partners with Husky Avax to give away beanies

• Beefy integrates Coinbase wallet

Yield Farms

• Penguin Finance announces no KYC for IDOs

• Lydia Finance announced $VERSE-$AVAX farming with 10x rewards

Privacy

• Avacash launched its $CASH token

NFTs

• Crabada airdropped 1300 $AVAX to players

• Firat, a famous Turkish caricature artist launched PFP collection—received great feedback.

• Avalanche Party Animals advent calendar concludes with a trip to Barcelona

• Chikn’s DAO treasury composed of $FEED reaches USD $18.4 million in value.

• Minted History publishes 2022 roadmap and upcoming lottery.

• Metamorph a generative art project launched round 6 of its deflationary collection.

• Feelings, a hand drawn collection of 250 NFTs evoking human emotions were released.

• Cookie Game launches—mint baker NFTs and stake them to earn cookie tokens.

• Imperium Empires a AAA NFT GameFi platform launches its $IME token on Trader Joe.

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